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Local residents look for survivors on the wreckage of train carriages after an express train derailed near the town of Khatauli in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on 19 August 2017

New Delhi, Aug 19 BJP president Amit Shah today expressed grief over the loss of lives in a train accident in muzaffarnagar in western Uttar Pradesh, and said he had asked the local party unit to join the rescue efforts.

State official Arvind Kumar said two of the coaches had telescoped into one another, while four others toppled onto their sides.

A local lawmaker said 14 people had been killed and 58 seriously injured. "Rescue and relief operations are continuing", G S Priyadarshi, a civil official at the accident site, told AFP.

The cause of the derailment was not immediately known, Sharma said.

"I am personally monitoring the situation".

Ajay Pandey, a senior police officer at the site, said: "We are struggling to pull out injured, and are waiting for gas cutters to arrive".

Railway police and local residents are working together to rescue the stranded passengers but some of the carriages are piled on top of each other and others have overturned, making the rescue mission hard.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath enquired about the accident and directed officials to take all possible action, an official spokesperson said. My deepest condolences to the bereaved families, may injured recover soon.

This disaster is the latest to hit the huge and dilapidated railway network of india, which ensures the transport of tens of millions of people each day.

Saturday's accident is at least the fourth major passenger train derailment this year and the third in Uttar Pradesh in 2017. "In this tragedy, 23 people were killed and over 40 others injured, who were admitted in different hospitals".

India has the world's fourth biggest rail network and crashes are common due to poor maintenance of the vast network.

The Minister said that he was in close touch with Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, state government officials, district administration to coordinate rescue and relief operations.

The government launched the additional safety overhaul programme in February to tackle a surge in train accidents in the past two years blamed on defective tracks.

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